Vocabulary
Define Patrician
Upper class citizen or ruling class in Ancient Rome.
Italy’s land
Mountainous, rocky, and a peninsula
Rivers
Tiber, Po
Original inhabitants and government
Latins and Republic
Allowed people to
Keep their own language and region
Plebeian
Lower class citizen in Ancient Rome.
Fresh water- Sea access- Good land- Protection-
Tiber river, Med. sea, Tuscan plains, The Alps
Seas
Tyrrhenian, Adriatic, Mediterranean, Ionian
Patricians and Plebeians
Political, military, and religious, Common people
Constructed a network of
Roads
Republic
A form of government in which people elect leaders and representative.
Most prized crops
Grapes for wine, olives for olive oil
Islands
Sardinia, Sicily, Corsica
Romans were
Patricotic
Allow for more efficient
Travel and trade
Tripartite
Three branch government
The latins first settled in
Latium Plains
Cities
Alba Longa, Naples, Rome
granted
citizenship
Conflict of orders
Plebs left the city
Veto
Checks and balances
to reject
A system in which each branch of government limits the power of another branch.
The river that connects Rome to the Mediterranean Sea
Tiber River
Plains
Tuscan, Latium, Campanian
Absorbed
Achievements
Conflict of orders: revolt
Plebs wanted voice in government, treated as citizens